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Found out the hard way that my dive log had a max depth rule I never heard of
So I was sitting in the trailer after a job in Morgan City last month, just flipping through my log book while the compressor cooled down, and the company safety guy leans over and points at one of my entries from a job in 2022. I had written 168 feet for a short inspection on a riser, nothing crazy, been deeper plenty of times. He tells me that for our insurance to cover us on saturation work, no single bounce dive in the prior 5 year record can show a max depth over 165 without a chamber on site and a whole extra pile of paperwork. I had no idea that number even mattered. Nobody ever told me the log was being read like that. I just thought it was for me and the medic. Turns out the underwriters go through your history before they write the policy on a new contract, and that one entry almost cost the whole crew the job. We ended up having to bring in a chamber for the first week just to satisfy them. Anybody else run into a hard number like that buried in the fine print, and did your company tell you ahead of time or was it a surprise like mine?
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